So I set up a low tech dirted tank and it was going quite good actually for about six months. But then I encountered this green, furry type algae and some of my plants started dying also. Anyway I was thinking about tearing the tank down and using Seachem Flourite black sand and using root tabs...

So this project is several months down the line June hopefully. It's all hinging on renovating my 400 gal pond. I thought I would be able to at least move the rocks out but nope, its Michigan and we have had rain, 3 days of 60° weather then snow then rain then this morning more snow...... i am...

This is a project for a future date, as I am still learning- but this just came in the mail: MY GIANT FISH BOWL! I have never seen a glass bowl this size. I’m very excited to make this into a new planted, dirted aquarium, Walstad style! The bowl is 16” high and 19“ in diameter!! 🤯 I used the...

Soil consisting of 60% peat moss, 40% composed bark fines and iron sulfate (50g/m3) additive, would it be ok for a Walstad tank even if it has a pH of 4? Or would it be beneficial to have a soil exclusively consisting of either peat moss or compressed bark fines? Cheers,

I’m having a bloom of some sort, which I fairly certain isn’t any type of algae. The tank is a well established tank that I use to house my trimmings from all my other planted tanks. I’m thinking it may be a bacterial bloom of some sort which I have dealt with in the past but it doesn’t look...